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Plastic bags - re-use them, or better still don't use them!

Sustainability councillor Denise Cobb is pictured with re-usable cotton bags at local group’s ‘Drama for Fun’s environmental production at Benfield Junior School, Portslade

The council is looking at ways to eliminate plastic bag use in the city, including developing a ‘bag for life’.

Sustainability councillor Denise Cobb is pictured with re-usable cotton bags at local group’s ‘Drama for Fun’s environmental production at Benfield Junior School, Portslade.

The council-sponsored bags were given out to the audience. Everyone can help.

  • try taking your own shopping bags out with you, and
  • using old plastic bags to separate your recycling – they will be returned in your box for you to use again
  • use them as freezer bags
  • place them over young plants to aid germination
  • use to line hanging baskets, or
  • to grow potatoes!

For more on how you can play your part during Plastic Bag Free Week from 1-8 March, go to www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/sustainability


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